I've been up reading the Mark's daily apple for the last hour and so many things they discussed ring true in my case. Although I've never had a lifelong problem with BM, my acute attack put me on an 8 month of recovery that had me eliminating all insoluble fiber, instinctively. I had to stop all raw veggies and eliminated high fiber like green beans, asparagus, avocado. I went to very well cooked foods beginning with chicken soup for quite a while. Later (4 months) I was able to move into cooked Zucchini and yellow squash which I found to be very low in insoluble fiber and cooking them makes them almost predigested. Only now after 7-8 months am I able to have salad again. Any extra fibrous green beans, as in larger and picked too late with threads are a nono..

Thanks for that link GR

Now I'll go read the second one